[CQ-Contest] Best & worst scenarios - 3830 postings

[Zack Widup]

VHF+ contesting is certainly a whole different ball game.  I do both HF 
and VHF+. I definitely have to shift gears when doing VHF contests. 
Sometimes I sit for a half hour with no new QSO's in the log and sometimes 
I'm kept so busy running bands that I miss out on people. The August 
UHF contest was like that for me.  I was evidently square in the middle of 
a tropo opening that ran up to at least 10 GHz (my highest band) and was 
good in all directions from me for over 400 miles.

HF contesters usually have 6 bands to run. I usually have 10 in the VHF 
contests. When it's hopping, it's exciting.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Steve London wrote:

> Zack Widup wrote:
>
>> I have won several VHF contests for my state or division in my favorite
>> category. A few times I've done better than that. But some of my
>> competitors never post to 3830 and may in fact not even send in their logs
>> till the last minute.
>
> From my experience on the regional VHF reflector, I would say that a surprising
> number of VHF-only contesters have very different ethical standards than the
> vast majority of HF contesters. W3ZZ is to be commended for his fine QST VHF
> columns addressing these issues.
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC